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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Molecular Biology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. George Beadle was a young graduate student from where?
(a) Kansas.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Nebraska.

2. In what year was the term "genetics" coined?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1912.

3. In what year was the First Oxford Chromosome Conference held?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1949.

4. What is the word that describes a chromosome that has two centromeres?
(a) Dichromosomic.
(b) Digenetic.
(c) Dicentromeric.
(d) Dicentric.

5. What does NOR stand for?
(a) Negative opening region.
(b) Nucleus order regulator.
(c) Nucleous orange region.
(d) Nucleolar organizer region.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Harriet Creighton take a teaching job in 1934?

2. What did Stadler and McClintock share a keen interest in concerning maize?

3. In the mutant seedlings that Barbara had grown, what could be seen that didn't belong?

4. In Chapter 8, Evelyn Keller talks about scientists that set out to understand a new principle of order. What does she say is one of the first things that the scientists do?

5. In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her Ph.D.?

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